Are Kontakt 7 Instruments supposed to show up under Live11 Plugins->VST3... hierarchy?

jimtellier

I see Plug Ins->VST3->Native Instruments->Kontakt 7, but nothing under that. I just got the Impact Soundworks "Pedal Steel" and for the life of me can't figure out how to pop it into a MIDI track in Live. Sorry if this isn't the right forum for my question; just not sure what piece of this puzzle needs solving! Thanks for any assist!!

DunedinDragon

Are you using the Ableton browser window or are you trying to drop it directly into a MIDI track? In my Ableton Live 11 I just select the Plug-Ins category on the browser window and it shows Native Instruments as a category. I just drag Kontakt 7 onto a MIDI track and it loads Kontakt as my plugin for that track at the bottom of the screen and that's where I select Pedal Steel and work with it normally in Kontakt and it's integrated seamlessly with my Ableton track.

You configure Plug-Ins by selecting Options->Preferences->Plug-Ins in Ableton.

Milos

You mean you can't see the piano roll of your instrument?

Could you please show more details?

DunedinDragon

Are you using the Ableton browser window or are you trying to drop it directly into a MIDI track? In my Ableton Live 11 I just select the Plug-Ins category on the browser window and it shows Native Instruments as a category. I just drag Kontakt 7 onto a MIDI track and it loads Kontakt as my plugin for that track at the bottom of the screen and that's where I select Pedal Steel and work with it normally in Kontakt and it's integrated seamlessly with my Ableton track.

You configure Plug-Ins by selecting Options->Preferences->Plug-Ins in Ableton.

jimtellier

Not talking about piano roll; I'm looking at the Ableton browser window under Plug Ins...etc

jimtellier

I happened to do a System Update last nite, then when I restarted Live, I verified the Plug Ins in Preferences; the instrument "load" operation hadn't worked yesterday, but it does now, so I'm good to go. Thanks for your help guys!